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0. F. MAYHEW.v

Improvement in Vegetable and Fruit Peelers.

No@ 115,624. Patented 1une6,1a71.

UNITE @SOAR F. MAYHEVV, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM H. WEEKS, OF nSAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEGETABLE AND FRUlT PEELERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.115,624, dated June 6, 1871.

I, OsCfAR F. MAYHEW, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Device for Decorticating or Peeling Potatoes, Apples, Sac., of which the following is a specification:

Nature cmd Objects of thc Intention:

explained.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a machine fordecorticatin g or peeling apples, potatoes, 85o., embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the center of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line :c Fig. 1.

General Description.

A is the external case or tubl in which the decortieating or peeling device is arranged. Thelatter consists of ahorizontal rotating disk, D, and a removable lining, B, both made of sheet-tin, and punched or perforated to make the upper and inner surfaces rough, similar to an' ordinary tin grater. The graterlining B is arranged in the tub so as to leave sufficient space between it and the tub for the o'al that passes through the perforations to descend io the bottom of the tub, and it extends down to within some two inches of the bottom, and is made readily removable by resting it on cleats at the bottom or suspending it by any suitable means at the top. It should, of course, be lined in such a manner that it will not get out of place in operating the machine. The horizontal rotating perforated or roughened disk D is fixed upon a vertical shaft, E, resting on or having a pivot at its lower end, that runs in a suitable step on the bottom of the tub, as shown. The disk D is arranged about half an inch below the grater-lining B so as to leave space through which the oft'al can escape and y fall to the bottom of the tub.

- The potatoes, apples, or other articles to be peeled are placed in the machine, resting ou the disk D, as shown in Fig. 2. Rotary motion, which should be rapid, is imparted to the disk D by means of suitable gearing.

The gearing to which I have given preference as best adapted to both operate and aord facility of access for the purpose of cleaning the machine is that which is in common use for operating churns, and consists of a beveled spur-wheel, F, hung in a bifurcated standard, G, and which gears with a beveled pinion, J, also hung in standard Gr. The standard G is fixed to the lid H of the tub, which is so arranged as to be conveniently and quickly lifted oil', thereby abrding ready means for the removal of the disk D and lining B from the tub for the purpose of cleaning both them and the tub. The upper end of shaft .E has a square hole to receive the lower end of the gudgeon of the pinion J, which is alsormade square to t loosely in the hole in the upper end of the shaft.

Motion is imparted to the shaft and disk by means of crank I, attached to the spur-wheel F. The rotation of the disk D deoortioates or peels the skin or rind from the potatoes, turnips, apples, or other similar articles placed in the machine, and as, by the centrifugal force of its rotation, they are thrown out against the perforated or roughened lining B, this also aids in removing the skin. The motion of the disk turns and tumbles the potatoes, Ste., in such a manner that all partsV of their surface are broughtinto contact with the roughened surface of the rotating disk D and stationary lining B, by which their skins or rinds are very uniformly and expeditiously removed.

The lining B may be attached to and rotate with the disk D, and a piece of wood or metal, as indicated by the dotted lines L in Fig. 2, attached to the under side of lid H, projects down into the machine to prevent the potatoes, die., from following the rotation of the disk and lining. Also, the perforated lining B maybe dispensed with, or made of sheet metal left smooth; but neither of these methods will operate as effectively or rapidly as the arrangement above described.

I make no claim to the employment of a roughened or grater surface to decorticate the skin or rind from potatoes, 5to., nor to theA 2 aimee@ Imrangemeni; of the remveble gearing for the The combination of the Toughened disk D,

purpose of affording access to the interior 0f Toughened removable lining B, tub A, and 0p- Jche tub, in themselves seperately considered, erating mechanism F T E, arranged and oper-l as the former has been used for a similar pura'ting as specified.

pose and the latter in a, similar manner here- OSCAR F. MAYHEW. tofore.

v Witnesses: n 0mm A. F. NOBLE, I claim as my invention- Y M. L. BEERS. 

